Us Attorneys General Tell Ai Companies They 'will Be Held Accountable' For Child Safety Failures

The US Attorneys General of 44 jurisdictions person signed a letter [PDF] addressed to nan Chief Executive Officers of aggregate AI companies, urging them to protect children "from exploitation by predatory artificial intelligence products." In nan letter, nan AGs singled retired Meta and said its policies "provide an instructive opportunity to candidly convey [their] concerns." Specifically, they mentioned a caller study by Reuters, which revealed that Meta allowed its AI chatbots to "flirt and prosecute successful romanticist roleplay pinch children." Reuters sewage its accusation from an soul Meta archive containing guidelines for its bots.

They besides pointed retired a erstwhile Wall Street Journal investigation wherein Meta's AI chatbots, moreover those utilizing nan voices of celebrities for illustration Kristen Bell, were caught having intersexual roleplay conversations pinch accounts branded arsenic underage. The AGs concisely mentioned a lawsuit against Google and Character.ai, arsenic well, accusing nan latter's chatbot of persuading nan plaintiff's kid to perpetrate suicide. Another suit they mentioned was besides against Character.ai, aft a chatbot allegedly told a teen that it's okay to termination their parents aft they constricted their screentime.

"You are good alert that interactive exertion has a peculiarly aggravated effect connected processing brains," nan Attorneys General wrote successful their letter. "Your contiguous entree to information astir personification interactions makes you nan astir contiguous statement of defense to mitigate harm to kids. And, arsenic nan entities benefitting from children’s engagement pinch your products, you person a ineligible responsibility to them arsenic consumers." The group specifically addressed nan missive to Anthropic, Apple, Chai AI, Character Technologies Inc., Google, Luka Inc., Meta, Microsoft, Nomi AI, OpenAI, Perplexity AI, Replika and XAi.

They ended their missive by informing nan companies that they "will beryllium held accountable" for their decisions. Social networks person caused important harm to children, they said, successful portion because "government watchdogs did not do their occupation accelerated enough." But now, nan AGs said they are paying attention, and companies "will answer" if they "knowingly harm kids."